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Also why the hipster war on the table element was doomed to fail in html

What war are you referring to, and what hipsters? As someone who used tables extensively for layout at the time, there was never any war against it, just a desire for better layout via CSS which is what we have today (flexbox, grid).

Calling it a war against tables for actual tabular data is a bit over the top.

Oh, there definitely was a war.

There was also a desire for a better layour (flexbox, grid) but there was a war against tables for layout ("not semantic") even when the other option was a pile of hacks and kludges based on "float".

Table elements are pretty much completely absent from modern web dev though?

Layout yes. But not for tabular data, they're great for that.

Yeah only took about six or seven major revisions.

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